Palassovsky District History and Art Museum is located in the small town Pallasovka, Volgograd region, which is 300 kilometers from Volgograd, near the border with Kazakhstan. Pallasovka Torgun located on the river (a tributary of the Volga). Railroad Astrakhan - Krasny Kut passes through this town. The name of the town was named after the St. Petersburg Academy of Sciences PS Pallas, who investigated these places in the years 1773-1774.

The museum was opened in early 1968, initially as a branch Pallasskogo Museum of Fine Arts, and later, with the expansion of the exhibition, received the status of History and Art. The museum does not have a separate building and is located on the ground floor of a five-story residential building has three rooms for visitors to the area about 300 square meters.

The permanent exhibition has three sections: "The nature of the native land" - about the flora and fauna Pallasovsky area of ​​natural monuments in the region - Lake Baskunchak and mountain Ulaganon; "Secrets of the steppe mounds" - the unique local history and the richest material of finds excavated Sarmatian burial mounds in the second half of the last century, and the construction of irrigation; "Pallasovsky region during the Great Patriotic War" - materials about the countrymen who took part in the fighting during the Great Patriotic War.

Art of the museum is masterfully executed paintings, drawings and sculptures from their own funds, private collections, galleries of contemporary artists and sculptors. In addition, the museum staff spend much educational work: lectures, guided tours, theme nights and local history lessons.

Pallasovsky museum annually receives about 15 million visitors, and is a center of cultural and local history work in the area.